Choosing your wedding rings is much more personal today than it was when your parents were planning their wedding. In the past, the bride’s engagement and wedding rings came as a matched set, and often the groom’s wedding ring was pre-designed to match her set. Choices were fairly limited, and there was little room for any serious self expression in the rings’ designs.   Lucky for you that’s all changed now, and both brides and grooms can find the perfect wedding ring to suit their taste and styles. And thankfully, the bride’s engagement ring, her wedding ring, and the groom’s wedding band are three separate entities. No matchy-matchy necessary, which means the options can be limitless.   In fact, you could say the biggest trend today in choosing a wedding band is making it your own. While many brides still want the traditional wedding band with diamonds, more brides are stepping out of convention and choosing a gemstone band to layer against the engagement ring. Emeralds, sapphires or garnets, alone or  combined with diamonds in channel, pave, or garland styles, for example – brides have never before had so many choices.   Grooms are faring much better as well, with bands in a wide array of widths, metals, colors, and gemstones. Amidon has a range of  gent’s wedding bands in gold, steel, titanium, some with diamonds – masculine, intricate rings, each as individual as the man wearing it.   Amidon’s Fable Designs take men’s band choices to a whole new level, with vivid colors, rich designs and unique touches that can be as personal as you want them to be.             As the price of gold continues to go up, new materials are surfacing including zirconium, cobalt, and ceramic tungsten. As a result, more options are becoming available for grooms than ever before.   If your engagement ring was chosen separately from your wedding ring, you can find a wedding ring with complementary diamonds or gemstone that maintains the classic look of the engagement/wedding ring set, without being stuck with a design that you may not be crazy about. Some brides choose to pass on the engagement ring altogether and select a wide, ornate diamond wedding band, which is practical and chic. Still others are choosing to wear their engagement ring on the left hand and their wedding band on their right hand, allowing each ring to stand alone.   Of course, with all the choices out there, brides and grooms who like certain aspects of different rings may want to create their own ring designs. Amidon’s “Design Your Own Ring” option allows brides and grooms to purchase a diamond and have it set to suit their own tastes and budgets.  This may be the perfect answer to finding a man’s wedding band that compliments the bride’s.   Like every aspect of your wedding, you want your rings to reflect who you are, and your love for each other. Your relationship is unique, your tastes are unique, and your rings  should reflect nothing less. ###